Survey and alignment analysis for the ALS storage ring using computer spreadsheets
The general survey and alignment concept for the ALS is based on a network of fixed, three-dimensional monuments installed in the building floor, to which all accelerator component positions are referred. The survey of these monuments is performed separately for horizontal and vertical coordinates, following the scheme imposed by the code PC-GEONET that is used for monument data analysis. For most of the accelerator objects the tasks of data acquisition, bundling, and transformations from observation-station into object coordinate-systems are being handled by the commercial software package ECDS rather than by PC-GEONET. This choice had to be made because no instrument stands are presently available at LBL that can be placed exactly over monuments and are high enough to permit observing the fiducials of installed magnets from above. Theodolites only are used with ECDS as observation instruments, and absolute scaling has to be provided by observing some object of precisely known length. To create ideal data and compute alignment values for all accelerator components, spreadsheets were developed by the author using the application EXCEL for Macintosh computers. Choice of a spreadsheet method rather than conventional programming techniques proved very convenient when in the course of this work the sheets had to be created and progressively modified under severe time pressure to include new effects and help redefine the observation procedures. With spreadsheets, varying input data formats coming from the survey crew could be easily accommodated, and adding numerous consistency checks as well as generating additional ideal data for special alignment tasks was possible with comparatively little effort. Dedicated spreadsheets were created for each of the 12 curved sectors of the storage ring. In this paper, the main features of the spreadsheets are presented, and the alignment results for lattice and corrector magnets are listed and discussed.
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley Lab., CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC03-76SF00098
- OSTI ID:
- 10183380
- Report Number(s):
- LBL-34335; LSGN-143; CONF-9309204-2; ON: DE93019254; TRN: 93:022830
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 3. international workshop on accelerator alignments,Annecy (France),28 Sep - 1 Oct 1993; Other Information: PBD: Jul 1993
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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